About Banlotwa Village

Banlotwa is a small village in Ormanjhi tehsil, in the district of Ranchi, Jharkhand. The Census of India 2011 recorded a population of 418, made up of 219 males and 199 females. That works out to a sex ratio of about 909 females per 1000 males. The village covers 302 hectares hectares. Its pincode is 835219, shared with the other villages in the same post office area.

How Banlotwa compares

By the 2011 count Banlotwa is the 66th largest of the 86 villages in the tehsil, which puts it well below average, where the typical village holds 1,033 residents. Its 302 hectares work out to about 1.4 people per hectare, very thinly settled, with most of its land uninhabited. On the sex ratio, there are noticeably fewer women than men, well below the tehsil average of 960.

Getting to Banlotwa

Banlotwa is reached by bus from a few kilometres away, with rail a longer trip. The census records public bus service for Banlotwa as Available within 5 - 10 km distance. Private bus service is recorded as Available within <5 km distance. For rail, the census notes the nearest railway station as Available within 10+ km distance. These entries describe what was recorded in 2011 and services may have changed since.

How far is Banlotwa from other places

Banlotwa lies about 30 km from Ranchi, and the nearest railway station is Mael, about 11 km away. The figures below are straight-line distances from the village to each place. A road journey is longer, usually by a quarter to a half again.

Villages closest to Banlotwa

These are the nearest recorded villages by distance rather than by name, all of them in Ormanjhi tehsil.

• Muta under 2 km
• Sidarmuta under 2 km
• Uparnagru under 2 km
• Sanri under 2 km
• Khudiya under 2 km
• Bhusur 1.7 km

Source: Census of India 2011, the most recent completed census. Figures have not been revised since collection. Read more on our about the data page.